NOUVELLE VAGUE [new wave]: Jeannine Hascall & Robin Perry Dana, a two-person exhibition featuring new work by the artists.

Jeannine Hascall's latest work is a minimalist combination of radically romantic, cascading textiles complimented by elegant acrylic paintings. Robin Perry Dana's lush and penetrating videos and photographs focus on the essential serenity of our upland watershed. The exhibition delivers a tranquil vision of enigmatic beauty.

Jeannine Hascall's art has radical intentions embodied in its torn edges and shadowy expressionist themes. The result is a striking body of work with a bold color palette, richly layered texture and pattern, and hints of her intellectual journey through life and art-making. These mixed media works primarily constructed of fabric appear like apparitions, a combination of distortion and deterioration that read more so as psychological probing than narrative plot.

Robin Perry Dana's Watershed series explores the lush colors, organic forms, and primordial layers she finds in wetland habitats. Through the medium of photography, she emphasizes the strange beauty and wild grandeur of these isolated places. Her abstracted and decontextualized compositional strategies result in images full of chaos and mystery.

Jeannine Hascall spent much of her life in Southern Illinois and earned a BFA in painting and an MFA in fiber from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Since moving to St Petersburg, she has continued to explore new media and ideas in her studio at The ArtLofts in downtown St. Petersburg, with exhibitions at ARTicles Art Gallery, Florida CraftArt, and the Mirella Cimato Gallery at Opera Central.

Robin Perry Dana, a native of Georgia, resides in St Petersburg, Florida where she serves as Gallery Director of Articles Art Gallery and Curator of the Leslie Curran Gallery. She earned a BA in Studio Art from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta and an MFA in Photography from the University of Connecticut. She has exhibited her work up and down the east coast, taught photography in the US and abroad, curated art exhibitions, written on contemporary artists, and worked in book and magazine publishing.